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Category Archives: on marriage

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Today I got Power of Attorney in preparation for Joe’s deployment. I was the only one in the meeting with pens. I also had pacifiers and tampons but no one asked for those. You want me on your desert island because I am useful. Our date continued at the commissary (aka grocery store) where we …

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My mother bought the Saturn for me shortly after I had come back from Japan and moved to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania with Joe. We were unmarried and had given ourselves six months to either be engaged or broken up. We broke up. I quickly moved in with my kind and generous aunt. I slept in…

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For Mother’s Day I had told the kids that the only thing I wanted was a picture of us together. THIS picture. So for Father’s Day we did a reenactment for Dad. The crazy thing is that it is the exact same arrangement as the other picture. Unintentionally. Or that passes for crazy around this…

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And on the 47th day there was a picture of my man. He has felt a smidge overlooked by this project. Today we toured a Montessori school. And today we decided that it is a better place for our kids than where they are now. Here we are at Barnes & Noble having an After…

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